Smooth Ambler Old Scout #24509 6 Year Single Barrel Bourbon Whiskey - SDBB Private Selection

Barrel #24509 is a six-year Smooth Ambler Old Scout single barrel picked by the San Diego Barrel Boys — MGP high-rye bourbon bottled uncut at 112.4 proof, non-chill-filtered. John Little and TAG Galyean founded Smooth Ambler in Maxwelton, West Virginia in 2009; while their own whiskey aged they bottled MGP barrels under the Old Scout name and said so on the label, and the single-barrel program became one of the most chased in American whiskey — Pernod Ricard bought a majority stake in 2016. #24509 is MGP's 60% corn, 36% rye, 4% malt bourbon, aged six years in a new #3-char barrel, and bottled from that one barrel at 56.2% ABV — 112.4 proof — selected by the Barrel Boys, the most active private-barrel club in San Diego County, who taste blind against the standard release. Expect the MGP high-rye signature at six years: a nose of caramel, cherry, cinnamon, and rye spice with oak arriving, a rich, spicy palate of brown sugar, chocolate-covered cherry, and pepper with real body, and a long, warm, sweet finish. Honest note: the Barrel Boys picked three Old Scout barrels in one go — #24503, #24509, #24541 — and this is the mid-proof one; buy two and taste what a barrel changes. Neat, a drop of water. Old Scout, #24509, San Diego.

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